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 (see Former Saint Joseph’s Institution Saint Joseph's Institution (Abbreviation: SJI) is a Catholic secondary school for male students in Singapore. It was founded in 1852 as St. John's Institution, and is the 3rd oldest educational institution in Singapore (the first and second being Raffles Institution and St. Margaret's Secondary School respectively) . SJI provides an education to boys of all races and religions. The school is consistently ranked among the top secondary schools in Singapore. In September 2005, the school was one of the few in Singapore to be awarded the coveted School Distinction Award as part of the Ministry of Education's 2005 Masterplan Awards. It has been awarded the Best Practice Award for teaching and learning. SJI has received the Sustained Achievement Award for Sports and the Sustained Achievement Award for Uniformed Groups for the third and seventh consecutive year respectively. In 2008, the school was re-validated with the Singapore Quality Class Award, obtained, for the second time, the Best Practice Award (Teaching and Learning) and attained the Best Practice Award (Student All-Round Development) in the MOE External Validation exercise. The school received consecutive Sustained Achievement Awards in Academic Value-Added, Sports, Uniformed Groups and Fitness. In 2009, SJI was recognized by MOE with a pinnacle award - The School of Excellence Award. The School Excellence Award (SEA) recognises schools for their excellence in both education processes and outcomes. It is the highest and most prestigious award in the Masterplan of Awards framework in MOE, Singapore. The principal of SJI is Dr. Koh Thiam Seng. The deputy principal for curriculum is Mrs Goh Poh Kenn and the Assistant Principals for Student Development and Special Programmes are Mr Dominic Ang and Mdm Jenny Tan respectively. The Brother President of SJI, who is in charge of maintaining the Lasallian Ethos of the school and the character development programmes is Br. Michael Broughton FSC. In his absence, Br. Thomas Lavin, Br. Visitor of Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong takes over as Brother President.
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SJI was founded in 1852 as the first missionary establishment of the La Salle Brothers in the Far East. The endeavour was initiated by Rev Fr Jean-Marie Beurel MEP, who offered six Brothers from Europe to start the school using a former chapel as premises. Within a year, an attap hut also had to be erected to accommodate all the students. The school was known as St John's, but on 19 March 1855 (Feast of Saint Joseph), the cornerstone of a new school building was laid. From that date, the school has been known as Saint Joseph's Institution. The new central classroom block was completed in 1865, though further expansion of the facilities continued well into the 20th Century. The school had 426 students in 1900. This grew to almost 1200 in 1914, and 1600 in 1922. With the student population expanding, a temporary branch school was opened, which eventually led to the building of a second school – Saint Patrick's School – in 1933. During World War II, prior to the fall of Singapore to the Japanese, the school was used as a Red Cross hospital and housed a unit of the Civil Defence Force. A bomb hit the school courtyard during the war, leaving a crater, but the main building remained unscathed. In 1954, St. Joseph's Junior School was housed in St. Michael's School, now known as St. Joseph's Institution Junior. In 1975, SJI's first year pre-university classes and some its teachers were transferred to the newly-opened Catholic Junior College. In 1988, SJI shifted into a new campus at Malcolm Road situated just off the neighbourhood of Toa Payoh, beside the Tanglin Community Centre. The beautiful old campus with its distinctive semi-circular wings was gazetted by the Singapore National Heritage Board as a national monument. After restoration work, it houses the Singapore Art Museum. In 1990, SJI became one of the few schools invited by the then Education Minister to turn independent - a mark of its excellence. Leadership in the school has passed increasingly to lay people but they remain committed to the memory and mission of the Christian Brothers and their founder St John Baptist De La Salle. Under the administration of Brother Paul Anthony Rogers, SJI saw its peak in growth. In 1995 a Performing Arts Centre and an entirely new wing to house Secondary One students were added. In 2002, SJI celebrated the 150th anniversary of her founding. In 2006, SJI, upon the urging of the Economic Development Board of Singapore, opened an international school. SJI International began classes in January 2007. Andrew Bennett, a former Principal of the United World College of South East Asia, was appointed the first Principal of SJI International. To safeguard the Catholic and Lasallian ethos in the new school, the Board appointed SJI's former Deputy Principal (Student Development) Bro. Michael Broughton as the Brother President of the School. Lawrence da Silva, a former Director of the United World College of South East Asia heads the interim Governing Board of the School. 2006 was the first year in which double pure science was offered to every candidate, with no student doing combined science. [edit] Motto"Ora Et Labora", Latin for "Pray and Work" is a reflection of the twin pillars of the La Salle Brothers, Faith and Zeal. [edit] Summary of Information[edit] Brother Visitor and Acting Brother President
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[edit] Head PrefectsThe Head Prefect of SJI is the highest leadership position in the school. He heads the SJI Prefectorial Board and has responsibilities for school functions and CCAs. The Head Prefect updates the school administration on student affairs and plays a key role in the Assembly of Student Leaders. [edit] UniformThe uniform is completely white, worn with white socks and shoes. Boys in lower secondary wear white short trousers, while those in upper secondary wear white long trousers. The school badge is worn on the top right hand corner of the shirt pocket. Green and white striped ties are worn on the first day of the start of each school week, and on special occasions. For prefects, a dark green tie with numerous school crests' printed on it is worn instead and they wear their ties on every school day. Senior prefects are issued a badge denoting prefectorial status, worn on the middle of the pocket. They need not wear the regular school badge. PE uniform is a white shirt with the school crest printed on the front left breast and the word "Josephian" marked across the back. The green shorts have the word "SJI" threaded on the bottom left thigh. Sports shoes are allowed to be worn with the SJI PE Uniform. [edit] Notable alumni[edit] Ministers
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